So Long, Hector Bebb (1970 &
2006)

The setting is Wales. In the day-time
Hector Bebb drives a brewery lorry, but he's out early each morning for
roadwork and every evening he trains for the big fight in the gym above the
White Hart. Abe would have his boxers function as single-minded, sexless
fighting machines.

Hector has everything to make a world-beater, but his
disillusioned wife, Millie, suffers frantic consequences, and when Hector
returns home after winning the big fight he meets bigger trouble - the
cross-roads of his life. Told by a series of interior monologues, the fourteen
characters involved in this novel give a vivid and loving picture of the boxing
world.